Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-25
MINES AND MINING.

There are now seventy-fve men at work
at Black Pine.
The Big Bonanza, close to the Big Butte,
has again esumed operations.
Manager Knippenberg has again started
10 one Of the Hecla Company smelters at
Glendale.
New York gulch. the old-time placercamp
in Meagher County, is 10Y looming up as a
quartz camp. Helena parties are said to
be bonding numerous properties there,
The Tuscarora Company's furnace at
Argenta has been shut down until Prof.
Mueller can secure charcoal to mix with the
coke, the latter when used alone not giving
as good results as are desired.
A station is being cut on the 400 level
of the Blue Bird. The men are working
eight-hour shifts. In the bullion room is
placed a heater so as to utilize all the
steam coming from the exhaust thereby
making a sufficient supply Of hot water for
the boilers.
The principal events Of the week have
been the two or three unsuccessful attempts
at claim jumping. Owing to the security of
title which happily exists throughout the
mines OF the Flint Creek Mining District
generally, these have caused buta ripple in
the even tenoro Of development.-Mail.
DlltOn 2fIDuue. LIE UOIuel LFd SCdfteu
Up on Sunday with a force of men putting
They intend sinking to quite a depth before
running any levels. Work will commence
OF the Rena as soon as the pumps arrive.
These mines will be fully developed before
any reduction works are put up.
Bastian & Co. have bonded from Jere-
miah and Jabez Stevens, the William Tell
lode for $4,000, and twO-thirds Of High
land Chief for 1896, of which $4,000
is to be paid in the next thirty days and
the remainder in six months. The property
lies about ~three-fourths OF a mile north
OF the Granite Mouutain mine.
The Hope will ship in a few days thirteen
bars Of bullion, valued at about $1,4OO
each. The bars are nearly pure silver and
have a total value Of about SO ,OOO-the
result of a three weeks run, from a TO-
stamp mill. This is by no means an un-
usual run and will be continued through
out the year and in all probability ex-
ceeded.
The Elizabeth mine (adjoining the
Young American) bonded to N. B. Ringe-
ling last week by John G. Nelson, has been
relocated by Louis Demars on the ground
that Nelson is not a citizen of the United
States, never having taken out his papers.
II this be the case Nelson has undoubtedly
lost all claim to the ground in question:
Mail.
At 3 o'clock yesterday the work OF
pumping out the shaft at the Neptune was
begun. The cause Of the recent flooding
was that a shaft sunk in Missoula Gulch
had been connected by crosscut with the
main shaft OF the Neptune, and all the old
lumber and debris brought down by the
freshet was washed into the main shaft. It
will be some time before operations will be
resumed.
The Independent says that English par
ties interested in Montana mines and
anxious to acquire further interests, are
making a diligent study of the alien land
law, and to that end are consulting Ameri-
can as well as English lawyers. Various
plans to evade the effect Of the law are pro-
posed. one of the latest being the grant of
power OF attorney from the mine owner to
the intending purchas rs to take and oper-
ate the property upon terms amounting to
a sale.i effect, but not in law.
River Press: Last winter two good, prac.
teal miners, Messrs. Collen and Hopes,
sunk a shaft to the depth of sixty feet on
the Ripple, Neihart district, owned by
Messrs. Okerman. Mcqueen and Briggs. for
the ore they might find. and are likely to
make a stake out OF it. The lead is be-
tween five and six feet in width, and COZ
tains a rich streak OF about twelve inches,
from which assays as high as 81, 800 to the
ton have been had, while the average OF
the streak runs away up into the hundreds
of dollarI. Tley are nowgetting the ore
with rawhides. the snow being very
deep, and will probably ship it to Omaha.
-Correspondence OF the MINER
Mo1roso T<or~
MELRosE, May 2O.-The railroad boom
that has visited Melrose by reason OF
widening the gauge Of the Utah & North
ern, has given an increase to the popula-
ton of about 100 people. Beckwith's
Hotel is crowded with travellers. He is,
however, equal to the emergency. and CO.
tiers with a lavish generosity which satisfies
every guest.
Lavisieure, the French miner and owner
OF a new discovery in this vicinity, recently
shipped two carloads of ore from his dig
gings, which run high in galena silver, the
mass going into the hundreds by battery
assay.
The Hecla Company at Glendale have re-
sumed work with one stack, and are TAX
ing out a large amount of bullion. The
other two stacks will start by the 1st OF
June. A force of 800 men or over are en-
ployed in the mines and smelter. Explo-
ration is going steadily on. The manage
ment is under the control of H. Knippen-
berg, who has been in charge OF the works
for the past four years and whose reliability
is undoubted. The probability is that over
one hundred prospectors will investigate
this region the coming season. 1t is an
argcntiferous and auriferous belt or range
of mountains.
Bingham, one OF the most popular ranch
men OF this valley has just left for Butte.
He has with him for sale several head of
fine work horses and will undoubtedly
a good sum for the noble animals.
CHANCE.
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